Unité 42 - Season 2

A successful blogger and her daughter are gone. Unit 42 resumes service and initiates a frantic search for these two women, victims of their overexposure on the net. What if our digital life was as dangerous as our real life?

Continued from Episode 1. Unit 42 is at the footsteps of the woman who kidnapped Léa, an adopted girl. The investigation is complicated when they learn that the abductor is armed, also holds Billie, and that Lea's life is in danger.

The # 1 Belgian video gamer dies on stage, in the middle of a big tournament, following the explosion of his controller. Unit 42 will dive into the world of e-sports and discover the backstage of this sport is full of conflict, dreams, cheats and lusts. A difficult investigation for the unit 42 boss, as the victim turns out to be his nephew. All the sportsman's relatives are suspected, teammates, from the sponsor to the most virulent fans. Unit 42 will realize that if the victim was not as friendly as she looked, her talent drove her sworn nemesis, who wanted to get on the first step of the podium.

A young General Manager is found dead in the sauna of a company manufacturing smart objects. While the crime was committed from a distance, Unit 42 must unravel the mysteries of a company where frantic competition and the cult of secrecy are the norm. Trade unionists, employees, financiers in the workplace, everyone seemed to blame the GM, an authoritarian woman who led everyone to the stick, even her companion, who in order to free himself from her grip has had to commit the irreparable.

Returning to her home village for the burial of a family friend, Billie realizes that he did not die during a work accident, but that it is a murder operated through a hacking. Supported by local police, Sam and Billie will unearth a heavy family secret. At the same time as the investigation, a personal introspection starts for Billie. Plunging into the workings of this murder will be synonymous to her personal confrontations, settling of accounts and finally reconciliation. Because everything will be confused until the climax when the main suspect will be known.

A woman is assaulted by a man while sitting in front of her computer, connected to a man via an online sex site. This woman turns out to be the creator of the site, in connection with many virtual lovers. The murderer could be one of them. But who is behind these profiles? Unit 42 is confronted with its first violent crime 3.0... The investigation bounces when the unit realizes that it is rather necessary to look in the real companion of the victim. The partner or the lawyer, which of the two was blinded by his anger?

A moving truck is found abandoned with its load on an isolated road. Next to the vehicle, the body of the driver was killed by bullets. The unit goes in search of the second driver who has disappeared and could be the culprit. At the same time, in a nearby forest, a young woman is discovered unconscious, armed with a pistol, that of the victim. The investigation leads Unit 42 to discover a prostitution network with skillfully orchestrated computer logistics... where the trucks do not transport furniture, but women across Europe.

In front of the lifeless body of a man, strangled by his own robotic prosthesis in the middle of a movie screening, Unit 42 discovers the disturbing world of cybernetics... Nano-robots, microchips and implanted hard drives, everything is good for improving the man of tomorrow... or putting him in danger! This promising science is still being tested and Unit 42 makes this sad observation: some patients have found themselves cheated following sometimes risky operations. When it comes to avenging his daughter, a hurt father can be ruthless.

Brussels, the capital of Europe, is the seat of many political, economic, and geostrategic issues. When a journalist is killed close to the European Commission, Unit 42 will have a hard time disentangling fact from fiction between international secret agents, fierce lobbyists, and corrupt parliamentarians. Everything gets complicated when the investigators discover that the victim had three identities. Which is the real one? The moderate journalist? The virulent blogger? Or the harassed homosexual? Which man did we want to eliminate?

K4oS is back. After having hacked the black boxes of the national armament company with Billie at the beginning of the season, he launches his anarchic project on his own: a revolutionary application that will remunerate anyone who commits an act against the political order in place. As a growing wave of players shakes society, Unit 42 must do everything to stop this viral application, and stop K4oS before he disappears for good. A delicate mission for Billie, plagued by contradictory feelings: her need for justice and her attachment to her childhood sweetheart.